Matters of the heart
Subtitle: history, medicine, and emotion
By: Fay Bound Alberti.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780199540976
Subjects: Heart -- Diseases -- Social aspects -- History; Heart -- Anatomy; Heart -- Symbolic aspects; Emotions; Mind and body
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the heart of the matter; title: Humours to hormones: emotion and the heart in history; title: Hunter's heart: pathological anatomy and the science of disease; title: Knowing the heart: from morbid anatomy to new technologies; title: Angina pectoris and the Arnold family; title: "Heart Latham" and nineteenth-century medical practice; title: The heart of Harriet Martineau; title: Emotions and the brain: rethinking the mind-body relationship; title: Conclusion: the matter of the heart.